A young man (Jan Nowicki) heads to a seemingly dilapidated sanatorium to visit his dying father (Tadeusz Kondrat), only to find that some seriously non-Einsteinian things are going on with the local physics. Further synopsis is useless – you’d think we were making it up.
But as we head back to the protagonist’s surrealistically remembered childhood and vividly bizarre vignettes of pre-war Jewish life in Poland, one thing becomes clear about Wojciech Has’ movie: it’s a head-trip quite unlike any other.
